![]() ![]() ![]() They come from the East, they show up Herod’s, they burn incense and myrrh, they show up at the manger, and they leave never to be heard from again. It’s interesting how there’s such a legend around these Three Kings but there is so little about them in the New Testament, just a handful of lines really. That meant going back and reading the New Testament, reading the Gospel of Luke and Matthew, where they are mentioned the most, and researching the traditions that sprung up around the Wise Men in the ensuing centuries. So I did the same thing I always do when I get excited: I started researching it. It didn’t have the crutch of a real life like in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. It was so in the vein of what I’ve done but it was also totally different. I was literally returning a movie to Blockbuster when I just thought of a simple question: Who were the three Wise Men of the Nativity and what were they doing there that night? Immediately, I got excited by the idea. I was driving on Robertson in the middle of the summer. ![]() ![]() Seth Grahame-Smith: It was just a bolt out of the blue. The Hollywood Reporter: Where did you get the idea for the story of Unholy Night? Grahame-Smith talked with The Hollywood Reporter about the inspiration for the book, his fears about tackling such a religiously charged subject, his worship of Stephen King, the possibility of an Unholy Night movie, and what’s happening with the rumored Beetlejuice sequel. ![]()
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